Before Beyond

I was at Bristol Art College in the early eighties when painting with paint was still a practice. I left to paint boats from top to bottom, including the lettering but continued my art with small group and individual shows which were successful for several years.

 

After a gap when gardening and creating gardens took over the urge to paint has returned. Ideas of the content of my paintings are starting to come from a place or state that is not 'mind' so the process is one of allowing the activity of painting with less or no attachment to the outcome.

 

I've been meditating on finding the Self behind, or beyond, the activity of the mind. Seeing how that activity is all a distraction. And before any of that arises, here, as always is the quietness of awareness, just being. In my paintings it looks as though spaciousness is glimpsed through something but really, I want to say that the glimpses are internal. I already am that peace.

 

I've been meditating on finding the Self behind, or beyond, the activity of the mind. Seeing how that activity is all a distraction. And before any of that arises, here, as always is the quietness of awareness, just being. In my paintings it looks as though spaciousness is glimpsed through something but really, I want to say that the glimpses are internal. I already am that peace.

Oil on Board

76x55cm

Unframed